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In 2008, the governor of West Virginia held a ceremony at Organ Cave to present the owner with a certificate stating that M. jeffersoni was the "Official West Virginia State Fossil" and repeated the assertion that it was indeed found in Organ Cave, but without producing any new evidence.
The reason Hellhole is such an important cave for these bats is its unusually low ambient air temperature. Most caves in West Virginia average around 57 °F (14 °C). Hellhole averages around 47 °F (8 °C). This cold temperature is critical for these species survival. The cave remains cool because it functions as a natural cold air trap.
Cass Cave is a cave located in Cass, West Virginia, [1] on Cheat Mountain. One of the rooms in the cave (the "Big Room") is 800 ft (240 m) long, 180 ft (55 m) high and 75 ft (23 m) wide. [2] Cass Cave has the highest subterranean waterfall in West Virginia and Virginia, Lacy Suicide Falls, with a height of 139 ft (42 m). The waterfall was ...
Cave is an unincorporated community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. It was so named because of a nearby cave. [2] A post office was established here in 1890. Cave is located on U.S. Route 220 along the South Branch Potomac River.
Organ Cave is an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. Organ Cave is located along U.S. Route 219 and West Virginia Route 63 at the Organ Cave , 4 miles (6.4 km) southeast of Ronceverte .
The West Virginia Encyclopedia says that 44 miles of the cave have been surveyed, making it the longest cave in the state, the 7th-longest cave in the United States, and the 35th-longest cave in the world. [7] In 2017, William B. White called it is the 31st-longest cave in the world. [8]
The Sinks again became the object of a popularization effort when West Virginia writer Jack Preble published a series of articles and booklets about them between the 1940s and the 1960s. Preble's anecdotal and romanticizing approach was little more reliable than Strother's at giving an accurate account of the cave.
Buckeye Creek Cave was first explored by Jim Berry and Gordon Rutzen, members of the National Speleological Society, during the late 1950s & early 1960s. [citation needed] The first survey was completed by the Baltimore Grotto in the early 1960s. A second survey was completed by the West Virginia Association for Cave Studies (WVACS). This ...